Simonetta Alessandri
Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who uses improvisation as a teaching and research method.
Staff details
Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who has been living in London for 5 years after a lifetime spent in Italy. In addition to her teaching at Goldsmiths, she also teaches at the Laban Center, the London Contemporary Dance School, Independent Dance and Moving East.
She trained in Europe and USA first in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary and then Contact Improvisation, Improvisation and Feldenkrais®.
She obtained the T.C. Royal Academy of Dancing®, she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais® and she received her PG Diploma in Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School.
After years of dancing with Companies in Italy she began collaborating with various directors and musicians as a performer and choreographer in Theatre, Opera and Site Specific performance. Since 1995 she has made her own choreography and her work has been performed in Italy, UK, Germany, Colombia, Turkey and Japan.
She has been teaching in Italy for more than 20 years (First Ballet and then Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation and Feldenkrais®). She kept Contact Improvisation alive in Rome through her classes and jams for 10 years and she started the organization RomaContact to support and develop C.I. in Italy.
She has taught in Germany, Colombia, Norway, Israel, France and Taiwan in dance institutions such as Tanzfabrik Berlin, CNDN Angers and IALS Rome. I She is a member of S.o.F.T., a collective researching and creating improvised performances.
Teaching
- Contact improvisation, Improvisation, Composition on the BA Drama and Theatre Arts and the MA in Performace Making.
- Presentations and exhibitions
- Selected research practise and performances
2012
Choreography: Dog Roses The Place Theatre Resolution! London
2011
Two weeks research for students at London Contemporary Dance School Feldenkrais into Choreographic process
2010
Improvised Performance: Numero Due Display Festival Goldsmiths University London.
2010-2009
Improvised Performances with SOFT in London: In the Moment Festival Trinitylaban- Roehampton University- Chisenale
2010
Back selected for 40th Anniversary The Place Theatre
2009
Choreography: Back The Place Theatre London
2009
Pratical Research: Project Weave The Feldenkrais Method as Choreographic Process London Metropolitan University
2009/2005/2003
Conference: ECITE European Contact Improvisation Teacher’s Exchange Europe
2008
Choreography: Segni Mobili London Contemporary Dance School
2008
Conference: CI 36 Anniversary Celebration Teacher’s Exchange USA
2006/2005
Choreography: Animarmonica MDA Produzioni Danza Teatro Vascello Rome and Tour Lazio e Campania
2005/2003
Improvised Performance Real Time Zip Festival Orvieto Italy
2005
Improvised Performance: About Two Teatro Campo Barbarico Rome Italy
2005
Creation of RomaContact association for supporting and developing Contact Improvisation and researching in Improvisation in Italy
2004
Improvised Performance for Israeli Festival Tel Aviv Israel
2004
Choreographer for Opera Le Trachinie Teatro Vascello Rome and Italian Tour and Japan, Turkey
Research Interests
Interests:
- Improvisation\ Contact Improvisation in Performance
- Composition in Improvisation
- Relationships between Improvisation and Choreography
- Feldenkrais as source for Choreographic process
- Embodied Voice
Applications of The Feldenkrais Method in dance/ movement training and performance making. Specifically exploring strategies that support the transfer of learning experiences from somatic exploration to dance improvisation and onto the creation of personal vocabularies and choreography.